Apple Hints HOWTOs How to Add Accents to Characters on a Mac Here is all you need to add in accents when writing words with special characters. Documentation taken from: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/enter-characters-with-accent-marks-on-mac-mh27474/mac May 5, 2021 0 Comments
Hints HOWTOs Software How to Fix Zoom Low Volume Ever struggle to hear someone on Zoom but they think they sound fine? Here is the fix. February 10, 2021 0 Comments
Hints Music Software How to Fix Missing Apple Music App Playlists (From Phone to Computer) Ever create an Apple Music app playlist on one device only to notice it did not sync on another? I have the solution. February 9, 2021 0 Comments
Apple Hints HOWTOs Web Development How to fix: svn: error: The subversion command line tools are no longer provided by Xcode As I was getting ready to do my first svn check in today – I got an error that I had not seen yesterday: “svn: error: The subversion command line tools are no longer provided by Xcode” My operating system: macOS Catalina 10.15.3 Apple’s documentation on how to fix this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes/macos_catalina_10_15_release_notes The solution: Open: The […] March 25, 2020 6 Comments
Hints HOWTOs Google Drive: View Files Largest to Smallest While doing some spring cleaning (mentioned yesterday) – I decided I needed to go through my files on my Google Drive™. April 25, 2018 0 Comments
Hints Serenity Now! Don’t Be a Tech Hoarder! Spring cleaning is not only for your home and garage. Every once and awhile I try and do some tech spring cleaning in order to keep things as organized and simple as possible. I highly recommend you do the same. April 24, 2018 0 Comments
Hints HOWTOs Web Development Disable the Cache in Safari 11 With Safari 11 – we lost the “Disable Cache” in the Safari Developer menu. If you are a developer – you know this comes in handy when debugging any CSS/JS changes. October 3, 2017 1 Comment
CSS Hints HOWTOs Fix for Bold Fonts Looking Bolder in Chrome If you noticed your fonts in Chrome looking more bold in Chrome than Safari – there is an easy fix. Add this in to your stylesheet (body or specific CSS class/ID): Example: h1 {-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;} You can see the difference: Before: After: March 7, 2017 0 Comments
Apple Hints HOWTOs Mac OS 10.2.2 SSH Keys Passphrase Help If you are like me and a few days ago – noticed that you were getting prompted for your passphrase when using your SSH keys (instead of using the keychain) – here is how you can make a small change to no longer enter your password each time: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/254468/macos-sierra-doesn-t-seem-to-remember-ssh-keys-between-reboots/264974#264974 January 18, 2017 0 Comments
CSS Hints HOWTOs WordPress Add Bootstrap Button Classes to the WordPress Comment Form Looking to stylize that WordPress comment button on the WordPress comment form? Adding the correct classes needed to the comment form button are as easy as finding where comment_form() is called in your theme. August 24, 2016 0 Comments
CSS Hints HOWTOs WordPress Add Bootstrap Classes to WordPress Widgets When creating your Bootstrap WordPress themes, you will notice the sidebar widgets (archives, categories, etc) which use dropdowns do not share the Bootstrap styling because there is no place easily accessible to add in the needed classes or CSS. August 22, 2016 0 Comments
Hints A Little Clean Up Goes a Long Way Sure – the app/theme/plugin you created a few months ago works, but I bet there have been updates or improvements or even optimizations that could make it better. For this reason, each year I like to take a month and do some general “spring cleaning” to most of my active projects in order to make […] January 12, 2016 0 Comments